Category Archives: Mystics
Secret Satan, 2021 part 2
Dreaming rebels, dames and showgirls, emphatic queers and seekers of the Elysian Fields
Secret Satan, 2021 part 2
Dreaming rebels, dames and showgirls, emphatic queers and seekers of the Elysian Fields
Ludwig Christian Haeusser, 1920
Quite possibly the craziest story about Weimar Germany you’ve never heard
Ludwig Christian Haeusser, 1920
Quite possibly the craziest story about Weimar Germany you’ve never heard
19 books for 2019
Who needs this many books? You do. YOU need this many books.
17-plus books for 2017
Dead poets, nude dancers, good bohemians, mystical Symbolists, jaded aristocrats, queer courtiers and blind men at play in a realm of dreams and voodoo
17-plus books for 2017
Dead poets, nude dancers, good bohemians, mystical Symbolists, jaded aristocrats, queer courtiers and blind men at play in a realm of dreams and voodoo
Artists and Prophets
A secret history of visionaries, provocateurs and al fresco evangelists
Windows to the Sacred
“An exploration of the esoteric”, starting Friday
Dress-down Friday: Gusto Gräser
Gräser’s idealism, ascetic lifestyle and incessant wanderings bring to mind a Herman Hesse character. And little wonder; Hesse was one of Gräser’s followers and worked both the personality and teachings of his guru through several of his books.
Dress-down Friday: Gusto Gräser
Gräser’s idealism, ascetic lifestyle and incessant wanderings bring to mind a Herman Hesse character. And little wonder; Hesse was one of Gräser’s followers and worked both the personality and teachings of his guru through several of his books.
Pearls: Joséphin Péladan
“Making the invisible visible: that is the true purpose of art and its only reason for existence.”
Pearls: Joséphin Péladan
“Making the invisible visible: that is the true purpose of art and its only reason for existence.”
Uh-oh…
Best known for his adaptation of the Jewish folk legend The Golem, Gustav Meyrink is attracting attention almost 80 years after his death for an eerily prophetic short story written in 1903.
Uh-oh…
Best known for his adaptation of the Jewish folk legend The Golem, Gustav Meyrink is attracting attention almost 80 years after his death for an eerily prophetic short story written in 1903.
The rhythm divine
Deren became fascinated by voodoo, which embodied multiple overlapping interests which she had already explored in film, including dance, ritual and altered states of consciousness. Choreographer Katherine Dunham described her as “possessed by rhythm”.
The rhythm divine
Deren became fascinated by voodoo, which embodied multiple overlapping interests which she had already explored in film, including dance, ritual and altered states of consciousness. Choreographer Katherine Dunham described her as “possessed by rhythm”.
Jewish Presbyterian Buddhist Nazi spy, MP
The annals of espionage and counter-espionage offer few stranger cases than that of Ignaz Trebitsch-Lincoln, born to a Hungarian Orthodox Jewish family but converting to Christianity soon after his arrival in London, where he joined the Society for the Promotion of Christianity Among the Jews.
Jewish Presbyterian Buddhist Nazi spy, MP
The annals of espionage and counter-espionage offer few stranger cases than that of Ignaz Trebitsch-Lincoln, born to a Hungarian Orthodox Jewish family but converting to Christianity soon after his arrival in London, where he joined the Society for the Promotion of Christianity Among the Jews.
A sâr is born
Joséphin Péladan was a keen self-publicist, describing himself as “the sandwich man of the Beyond”, and the opening night of the Salon des Rose+Croix in 1892 was mobbed by punters just as keen to lay eyes on the extraordinary “Sâr” as the work of such artists as Jean Delville.
A sâr is born
Joséphin Péladan was a keen self-publicist, describing himself as “the sandwich man of the Beyond”, and the opening night of the Salon des Rose+Croix in 1892 was mobbed by punters just as keen to lay eyes on the extraordinary “Sâr” as the work of such artists as Jean Delville.
Strange Flowers 